A review by psteve
The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer

2.0

A romp of a zombie novel. In this case zombeism is spread through saliva and other bodily (of which many are exchanged in this novel). It's set in Oakland and Berkeley, with key characters and a key scene set at Trader joe's on Lakeshore in Oakland, where my son works. The local color is mostly fun, as is the fact that this is an aware crowd, that more or less knows they're in a zombie story, and is of course aware of all the other zombie movies. That and the softcore sex scenes made it a fun romp, but it got a bit tiresome two-thirds of the way in, and I was turning pages fast to put it behind me.